Authorities crack down on Negros Oriental drug den, seize shabu

Emmariel Ares 11/16/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Authorities successfully shut down an alleged drug den in Barangay Poblacion, Sibulan, Negros Oriental, and arrested three suspects during an anti-illegal drug operation last Wednesday, November 13. The arrested suspects, including the alleged…

Over P6.1 million worth of shabu seized in separate drug busts in Siquijor, Cebu

Emmariel Ares 07/27/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Law enforcers arrested a newly identified drug personality and a high-value individual (HVI) in two separate anti-illegal drugs operations in Siquior and Cebu on Thursday and Friday, July 25-26. Seized from the two…

Cebu City drug sting nets notorious hitman and cohort

Emmariel Ares 06/13/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — An 18-year-old man, tagged as a notorious hitman, and his alleged cohort in peddling illegal drugs were arrested in a drug sting in Block 5, Barangay Sawang Calero in Cebu City on Tuesday…

Lapu mayor to give incentives to police for successful anti-drug operations 

Futch Anthony Inso 06/14/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan promised to give cash incentives to the police for their successful anti-drugs campaign in the city. On Monday evening, Jun 13, 2022, personnel from the Drug Enforcement Unit and…

Labella to PDEA-7, police: Maintain coordination

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/03/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has appealed to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) and the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) to work together in anti-drug operations in the city.…

5,903 drug war deaths as of September – PDEA

Consuelo Marquez - Reporter / @ConsINQ 11/06/2020

  MANILA, Philippines — Forty-seven more drug suspects were killed in anti-drug operations nationwide in August and September, raising the drug war death toll from the start of the Duterte administration up to September this year  to…

Cebu Province fetes police for efforts in anti-drug operations

Gresheen Gift M. Libby 03/11/2019

Cebu City, Philippines – The Cebu Provincial Capitol handed out awards and cash incentives to 135 police officers from different towns and municipalities in Cebu for their efforts in the successful drug operations in Cebu in the…

Three arrested in separate drug ops in Cebu City

Benjie B. Talisic 10/14/2018

Three persons were collared in the anti-narcotics operations by the drug enforcement units of the police stations of Pardo and Parian in Cebu City on Saturday evening (October 13). The Pardo police station arrested Simeon Bacus, 36,…

Couple, two others nabbed in Toledo City drug operations

Rene F. Alima 10/12/2017

  Four suspected drug peddlers were arrested in separate anti-drug operations in Toledo City on Wednesday evening. Couple Sammy and Rosanna Bagahansol were apprehended in their home in Barangay Poblacion. The couple yielded five sachets of shabu…

Espenido: Ozamiz City should not be feared

Nestle L. Semilla 09/13/2017

OZAMIZ City Police Chief Jovie Espenido apologized to the people and barangay captains of the city of Ozamiz after the village chiefs claimed that the city is now feared by people. On Wednesday, Chief Insp. Jovie Espenido…

On covering anti-drug operations

Editorial 09/08/2017

Should reporters and correspondents join anti-drug operations if only to prove that there are no killings of drug suspects contrary to claims of their families and rights groups? That’s the question that arose after President Rodrigo Duterte…

Secure reporters’ safety first, police told

Benjie Talisic 09/06/2017

THE president of the police beat reporters group in Cebu expressed his support to President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement to allow reporters to cover anti-drug operations. But Arnold Bustamante, news anchor of DyHP, said the safety of the…

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